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The Khazarian Hypothesis: Debunked by Science and History
@14Svyatoslav has repeatedly pushed the Khazarian hypothesis, citing sources like Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People (2009), and Eran Elhaik’s 2012 study. These sources, often embraced by Marxist anti-Zionists, are outliers. Koestler, a former communist, aimed to undermine racial anti-Semitism, while Sand, a self-described communist, uses the hypothesis to deny Jewish historical claims to Israel [1][2]. Elhaik’s study has been criticized for methodological flaws, such as using Armenians as proxies for Khazars, and is rejected by mainstream geneticists [3].
The evidence against the Khazarian hypothesis is overwhelming. Behar et al. (2010), published in Nature, analyzed genome-wide data and found Ashkenazi Jews have 50-70% Middle Eastern ancestry, clustering with Druze and Cypriots, not Turkic groups [4]. This is supported by Ostrer et al. (2013), which confirms Ashkenazi Jews’ Levantine origins [5]. @14Svyatoslav dismissed Behar as “propaganda” in his post on May 31, 2025, but provides no evidence of bias, ignoring its peer-reviewed status and widespread academic acceptance.
Historically, the Khazarian hypothesis also fails. The Khazar Khaganate collapsed by 969 CE after defeats by the Kievan Rus’, with no evidence of a mass migration of Khazar Jews into Eastern Europe [6]. @14Svyatoslav has relied on a ukrainer.net article (Dec 26, 2020) claiming the Karaites arrived in Crimea in the 13th century under Khazar rule, but this is false—Crimea was under the Golden Horde by then [7]. Jewish communities had been in Crimea since the 1st century CE, as Bosporan Kingdom inscriptions show, and the Karaites, emerging in the 8th century in Iraq, were in Crimea by the late 9th to early 10th century (c. 890-900 CE) [8][9]. @14Svyatoslav claimed on May 31, 2025, there was a “100-year gap” between the Khazar conversion (740-860 CE, c. 838 CE) and the Karaites’ arrival, but the timeline shows a gap of mere decades, not a century.
@14Svyatoslav’s Contradictory Pivot: KKK Imagery and Marxist Myths
@14Svyatoslav’s recent shift to posting KKK imagery while supporting the Khazarian hypothesis through Marxist-aligned sources is a profound contradiction. The Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1865, has always viewed Jews as a Semitic “race” to be targeted, not as Turkic converts. The KKK’s ideology, across its three waves (1865-1870s, 1915-1944, post-1950s), is rooted in white Protestant collectivism, racial purity, and the oppression of social groups, often tied to Christian Identity movements that see Jews as biblical enemies like the “seed of Satan” [10]. The KKK’s second wave in the 1920s, led by figures like Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans, framed Jews as a racial and religious threat, calling them a “distinct race” with “Semitic blood” in The Klansman’s Manual (1924) [11]. The third wave, post-1950s, continued this narrative, with leaders like David Duke in the 1970s linking Jews to communism and racial “impurity” in The Racialist newsletter [12].
The Khazarian hypothesis, which @14Svyatoslav champions, claims Ashkenazi Jews are primarily descended from Turkic Khazars, not Semites. This directly contradicts the KKK’s core belief that Jews are a Semitic race posing a racial threat. If the KKK accepted the Khazarian hypothesis, it would undermine their entire anti-Semitic framework, as they’ve consistently targeted Jews as a Semitic “other,” not Turkic converts.
The KKK’s collectivism further highlights their misalignment with @14Svyatoslav’s stance. Far from representing capitalism or individual freedom, the KKK operated as a collectivist, socialist-leaning group that enforced racial and social tyranny. In the 1920s, they practiced “vocational Klannishness,” a system where members were pressured to patronize Klan-affiliated businesses, prioritizing group loyalty over individual choice—a hallmark of collectivism [13]. The KKK opposed labor unions and economic individualism, instead promoting a racially defined social order where white Protestants dominated through collective action, as historian Nancy MacLean notes in Behind the Mask of Chivalry [14]. This collectivism aligns more with socialist principles than capitalism, yet the KKK still rejected Marxism, often calling it a “Jewish plot” in publications like The Imperial Night-Hawk (1923) [15].
@14Svyatoslav’s reliance on Marxist sources like Koestler and Sand is thus doubly contradictory. Not only does the Khazarian hypothesis clash with the KKK’s anti-Semitic ideology, but his Marxist alignment clashes with the KKK’s anti-communist stance. The KKK viewed communism as a Jewish conspiracy to undermine white Protestant America, yet @14Svyatoslav parrots Marxist myths while posting KKK imagery—an incoherent position.
Even modern white nationalists like Richard Spencer, whom @14Svyatoslav might be referencing, don’t support the Khazarian hypothesis. Spencer, known for his role in the 2017 Charlottesville rally with KKK-like torch marches, focuses on “white identity” and traditional anti-Semitism, viewing Jews as a distinct racial group, not Khazar descendants [16]. The Khazarian hypothesis is more often embraced by anti-Zionist leftists, not the alt-right or KKK.
Conclusion: @14Svyatoslav’s Stance Falls Apart
@14Svyatoslav’s use of KKK imagery while clinging to Marxist Khazarian myths is a contradiction that exposes his lack of coherence. The KKK’s own ideology—documented in their publications and rhetoric—rejects the Khazarian hypothesis by framing Jews as a Semitic race, and despite their collectivist tendencies, they rejected Marxism as a “Jewish plot.” @14Svyatoslav’s claims are further undermined by the evidence: Behar et al. (2010) and Ostrer et al. (2013) confirm Ashkenazi Jews’ Middle Eastern ancestry, and the historical timeline shows Jewish presence in Crimea during the Khazar conversion, refuting his “100-year gap” claim. My previous Hive blog (May 31, 2025,) already debunked his broader arguments: Unmasking @14Svyatoslav: A Marxist Imposter Masquerading as a National Socialist @greywarden100/unmasking-14svyatoslav-a-marxist-imposter
I’ll continue to challenge @14Svyatoslav’s falsehoods with facts through open dialogue, respecting his right to speak while exercising my freedom to correct him. What do you think of his contradictions? Share your thoughts below.
References
[1] Koestler, A. (1976). The Thirteenth Tribe. Random House; Cesarani, D. (1998). Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. Free Press, pp. 321-325.
[2] Sand, S. (2009). The Invention of the Jewish People. Verso Books; Sand, S. (2010). Interview in Haaretz, “Shlomo Sand: I’m not a Zionist, but I’m a Jew.”
[3] Elhaik, E. (2012). “The missing link of Jewish European ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian hypotheses.” Genome Biology and Evolution, 5(1), 61-74; critique in Behar, D. M., et al. (2013). “No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews.” Human Biology, 85(6), 859-900.
[4] Behar, D. M., et al. (2010). “The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people.” Nature, 466(7303), 238-242.
[5] Ostrer, H., et al. (2013). “Abraham’s children in the genome era: Major Jewish diaspora populations comprise distinct genetic clusters with shared Middle Eastern ancestry.” The American Journal of Human Genetics, 92(6), 850-859.
[6] Dunlop, D. M. (1954). The History of the Jewish Khazars. Princeton University Press, pp. 222-235.
[7] Pritsak, O. (1981). “The Khazar Kingdom’s conversion to Judaism.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 3/4, 261-281; Golden, P. B. (1992). An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples. Otto Harrassowitz, pp. 243-245.
[8] Goodenough, E. R. (1958). Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, Vol. 3. Pantheon Books, pp. 67-68.
[9] Gil, M. (2004). Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages. Brill, pp. 489-491.
[10] Barkun, M. (1997). Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. UNC Press, pp. 45-50.
[11] The Klansman’s Manual. (1924). Ku Klux Klan, pp. 12-15 (on Jews as a “distinct race” with “Semitic blood”).
[12] Duke, D. (1978). “The Jewish Question.” The Racialist, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 5-7 (on Jews and communism).
[13] MacLean, N. (1994). Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. Oxford University Press, pp. 89-92 (on vocational Klannishness and collectivism).
[14] MacLean, N. (1994). Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. Oxford University Press, pp. 95-98 (on KKK’s collectivist social order).
[15] The Imperial Night-Hawk. (1923). Vol. 1, No. 5, “Communism: A Jewish Plot Against America,” pp. 3-4.
[16] Spencer, R. (2017). Interview in The Atlantic, “The Alt-Right’s Vision for a White Ethnostate,” on his views of Jews as a racial group.